“did we have to ask if GPT was it? Did we say, "Oh, is GPT it? I'm not sure."”
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GPT
By OpenAI
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“A colleague of mine, a peer on on our product leadership team trained a GPT on a bunch of um transcripts”
“how do you combine the smarts of what maybe Claude does, right? with something that GPT does better”
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“Threads surpasses GPT is the fastest growing app ever.”
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